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We are glad to announce that the 6th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 5-7 September 2016 and will be hosted by the Università di Catania, Sicily.

CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:

(New) Media discourses

Party political discourse

Advertising

Institutional discourse

Power and identity in discourse

Discourses of conflict and aggression

Discourses of migration/integration

Language and gender/sexuality

Nationalist discourses

Discourses of education

Discourses of the environment

Discourses of health and mental health

Discourses of business and economics

Language and the law

Within discourse contexts such as those listed above, we especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to:

Cognitive Linguistics

Conversation and Discourse Analysis

Corpus Linguistics

Discursive Psychology

Ethnography of Communication

Forensic Linguistics

Functional Linguistics

Media and Mass Communication Studies

Multimodality

Political Science

Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory

Sociolinguistics

Sociology

Reflecting the diversity of topics and approaches in critical discourse studies, the following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers:

All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts of up to 350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2016@unict.itbefore 15 January 2016. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Due to the high nuber of abstracts and the extension of the submission deadline, notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 15 March 2016.